Christian Science Monitor

11/07/05

Despite a five-day trip to South and Central America, President Bush was unable to work the same wonders on US-Latin American relations that he did earlier this year on ties to Europe. Indeed, this trip was unlike Mr. Bush's February journey across the Atlantic, which was widely seen as successful in repairing relations damaged by the US decision to invade Iraq. Instead, the three-country trip that ends Monday has revealed more than anything how distant and dissonant relations with much of the hemisphere -- in particular South America -- have become...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1107/p03s01-woam.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp